On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:15:13 -0400, Harry Krause
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JohnH wrote:
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:51:03 -0400, Harry Krause
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JohnH wrote:
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:39:52 -0400, Harry Krause
wrote:

JohnH wrote:
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 03:15:14 GMT, "NOYB" wrote:

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Maine lobsters, for example, are mostly grown in holding pens these days
Nowhere did I say that "most of Maine lobsters are grown in pens."
I'm not sure how those two statements differ.


The difference has to do with the placement of the adverb 'mostly'. Harry
did not say, "Lobsters are grown mostly in holding pens these days." The
difference is subtle, but, in Harry's defense, it does exist.
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I didn't "misplace" anything. I put the word precisely where I wanted it
to be. It isn't my problem if some readers haven't the basic skills
necessary to decode ordinary English sentence. It also is not my problem
that "reggie" is a snarky a'hole.

Some people just admit a small mistake and drive on. Others get bent out of
shape and attack the one making the correction.
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Please indicate what rule stipulates word placement in the example under
discussion.

11a

"Be Sure That Adverbs Such as 'almost, even, hardly, just, merely, only,
nearly, scarcely' Refer Clearly and Logically to the Words They Modify"

Prentice Hall, "Handbook for Writers", Legget, Meade, Charvat, Englewood
Cliffs, NJ, 1974
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That's your cite for a rule? It's a good thing you teach math.

I guess you're well above the Prentice Hall handbook.
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